War?!?!?!?!?

War: What is it good for? Pros ans Cons of war, going to war, being in a war, and winning a war. Mature answers only please.Thanks!|||War-Nothing more than evil vs evil, no peace comes out of it. It is good for nothing, you cannot derive any positive outcomes for it, war is something noone looks for but is inevitable. Thing of war as a situation in which you see two birds fighting for a piece of bread in a pool of many other pieces. One bird wins, the other leaves to find another piece. Whats the objective? nothing more than immediate satisfaction. The inhabitants of the inner world are so advanced in technology and spirituality due to the fact that they don't have any wars!!!. Going to war has to be the most awful thing anyone can look forward to. You leave behind your family, friends, and personal life, but for what? to shoot another human being which is probably doing the same thing your doing.? It is completely ridiculous, if we want to keep this earth, then we need to start making some drastic changes. Winning a war gurantees peace for some limited time over your oppenent/s. But sooner or later they would strike and war breaks out(germany). Then other developing nations realize that war is something they have to do in order to obtain something? .lets make Iraq an example. We had no intellegience that stated saddam was enriching uranium in the 90's and kept the Weapons we supplied them. We were told the missiles and bombs were strategic and had topof the line technology to take an object out without missing. That turned out to be lies, the first bombs in 2003 missed their targets killing innocent children and citizens. We had osama surrounded in the 90's but we let him go?. Al Qaeda was never helped by saddam.? Iraq war was nothing more than false lies in order to enrich our oil consumption. WAR=DEATH|||General Erwin Rommel taught at a military academy in the 1920's. One central concept he impressed upon his students was: "The purpose of war is saving lives."





War is bad. People die, things get blown up, and money gets flushed down the drain. The only justification for war is to prevent something even worse from happening.





Example: A syphilis ridden cocaine addict, who is the dictator of Germany, and a Japan dominated by the evil Black Dragon society form an alliance to enslave the world. In this circumstance, it is OK for the United States to turn its economy into a war machine and raise a 12 million-man army to compel the unconditional surrender of these monsters.





Carl von Clausewitz, author of Vom Kriege (On War), is emphatic when he states that half-measures in war are for half-wits. That is to say, if you go to war, put 100% of your effort into it, hold nothing back. Maximum effort is the best chance for winning the war quick, and the quicker the war is over, the better it is for everyone, in the long run.





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Slavery


Nazism


Imperialism


Fascism


Terrine


Communism...(Do your homework on that one).


Freedom (The most important one).


So as you can see war sure is a pretty good problem solver.


Suck on that hippies|||War is when the elites manipulated the masses to murder others to steal resources for their benefit. Been like that since the beginning of humanity will be like that to the end.





*all my posts are my opinions or satire.|||War is good if someone attacks you. If not, it's usually a bad idea in the long run. Most of the time, but not always, the country with most industrial capacity, military technology, and the most troops will win the war. Depends a lot upon the type of government too. Totalitarian nations can more easily go to war, they don't have to worry as much about public support, but democracies have a tougher time unless they're attacked, because they have to worry about what the people think. Being in a war is never good.|||What terrible answers so far!! Wars in the modern world, despite the claim that they are fought for democracy, freedom, or religion, are fought over trade routes, areas of influence, mineral wealth, foreign markets or the strategic points from which the same can be defended. Thus all wars have their root in the desire off a small minority - the capitalist class, the corporatocracy - to make a huge profit.





Major General Smedley D Butler (USMC) and twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, in his book War Is A Racket, confirms this reality:





"War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.





There isn鈥檛 a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.





It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country鈥檚 most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In


short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.





I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.





I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international


banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.





During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints.The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. I operated on three continents."|||I would love to help, but this is a 3 pm question not a 3am question.|||War is a terrible thing, yet it is sometimes necessary for eventual peace.